doesn’t look like a bunny yet

Posted at 10:52 am on Sep 28th, 2008 by DarkFader

Nice thing.. I’ll build something like this :-)

Posted at 10:53 am on Sep 28th, 2008 by A.

Have something just like this with the LED taped to the corner of my screen, very handy. I built mine using an arduino, with the “SimpleMessageSystem” on it. That coupled with some python using libserial and libgmail. It’s really nice being alerted off-screen for some reason!

Posted at 11:31 am on Sep 28th, 2008 by Sanjay

Wow that usb module is awesome. But for 24 dollars i think i would rather get a mini Arduino for 19. But for stuff you want to put your own micro controller on it’s pretty cool.

Posted at 1:27 pm on Sep 28th, 2008 by dpenguin

sweet! I was just thinking of making something similar the other day, as a notifier for IRC chats.

Posted at 3:05 pm on Sep 28th, 2008 by dan winckler

test test why dont my comments show

Posted at 3:17 pm on Sep 28th, 2008 by Josh

Now they do when I change my screen name, huh?
I actully really like this one, it’s within my capabilities, and quite useful!

Posted at 3:19 pm on Sep 28th, 2008 by josh

can someone answer why there are 2 resistors on the serial in pin? why not 1?

Posted at 1:43 am on Sep 29th, 2008 by jme

@jme: To be honest, I built this long enough ago to have forgotten why there were two resistors! I suspect that they were in there for programming the Picaxe (i.e. the 22k is a current limiting resistor and the 10k a “pull-down” resistor) and vaguely recall that for some reason I had a problem when I tried to remove the “redundant” 22k resistor…

Posted at 5:16 am on Sep 29th, 2008 by tom

For me this is more usefull cause it shows how many messages are waiting:
http://www.jpelectron.com/readme/pop3led.asp
uses a big 7 segment display:
http://www.vellemanusa.com/us/enu/product/view/?id=522041

Posted at 8:46 am on Sep 30th, 2008 by girl

Do you guys have a recommendation section, i’d like to suggest some stuff

Posted at 2:41 pm on Mar 16th, 2009 by Doctor Site

Hi all,

I’m currently finishing work on a similar device, but have extended the python code with following capabilities:

- checks for twitter updates
- listens to “new message” alerts issued by pidgin
- listens to “new email” alerts from thunderbird
(thunderbird needs dBus extensions for this)

When some new msg is received, a system notification appears for some seconds, a LED is lit with the corresponding color and a tray icon with the symbol for twitter, email or pidgin appears. Clicking on this tray icon switches off the LED again.

I have set up thunderbird to also poll my favorite RSS feeds every ten minutes and forward all new articles to my local inbox – so I get notifications too when the RSS feeds are updated..

Now working on making things small enough to fit inside my eee1000h netbook…

:)

cheers

Posted at 8:12 am on Jun 3rd, 2009 by Dennis